This has to be the hairiest approach to payday for some time. Yesterday I used up my last six pounds on my mobile pretending to be equal to my Top Account Manager Friend who has never needed to worry about phone time in her charmed life.Till midnight, it’s text or 999 emergency calls. For three … Continue reading »
Posted in June 2010 …
Not Cricket
I have been back in the interviewing business. I spent yesterday afternoon talking to a man about a decision which will affect me and my family, and 350 others. The stakes were high. Urbanely, this man dominated the agenda as these people are wont to do. When I look back through his transcript I realise … Continue reading »
Foxgloves
In times when fury has to be constantly battled, distance – that most British of traits – must be cultivated. It’s just the way it has panned out, the jig the biorhythms seem to be dancing right now: there seem to be many, many many things to be very cross about indeed. And tonight, during … Continue reading »
Giggles
So there I was, home from work way too late, sitting round a table with an orange dinner (one of my specials, not a green thing in evidence) and a pair of children. We went through a gamut of impressions, from Spongebob to Stoick the Vast and Alvin the Treacherous. And then we started on … Continue reading »
The sky’s the limit
Today the sky pressed in - did you find? That thick cloud obscured everything, including that azure blue sky we’ve had recently, and the fiery sunsets we have been treated to by a partnership of the sun and volcanic activity. Today it seemed the sky was a limit: on our ability to think straight and … Continue reading »
Anger management
I’m busy deep breathing, relaxing the muscles, ignoring a headache shouting at me from a distance. Within the space of two days I have got to that point where all one sees is an angry red mist and one feels like i) shouting or ii) bawling uncontrollably. I believe this may constitute stress, but in … Continue reading »
